Paracelsus (Bombastus ab Hohenheim) Aureolis Philippus Theophrastus, (1493-1541)

Extracts and notes on alchemical processes and the preparations of spagyric remedies: based on the works of Paracelsus. In Latin. This MS. seems to be the work of a practising alchemist: the beginning of the text speaks of a 'Clavim super Theophrasti Paracelsi Mineralium doctrina'.

mid-18th century

1 volume 122 ll. 8vo. 18 × 111/2 cm. Paper covers. The title-page and 'Praefatio' are wanting.

Purchased 1909.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).